# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-thomason
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:47.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-thomason"
name: "Sarah Thomason"
slug: "sarah-thomason"
description: "Sarah \"Sally\" Thomason is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, Slavic Linguistics, Native American languages and typological universals. She also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience, and has collaborated with publications such as the Skeptical Inquirer, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech, in regard to claims of xenoglossy."
tagline: "American linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarah_(Sally)_Thomason.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.29533678756477
  historical:           6.341181333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Sarah Thomason"
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    title: "Sarah Thomason"
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    title: "ਸਾਰਾਹ ਥਾਮਸਨ"
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    title: "Sarah Thomason"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump